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PubMed1997

Family planning in the Jewish population of Israel: correlates of withdrawal use.

This report describes trends and differentials in contraceptive practices among Israeli Jews. Data from two fertility surveys show a heavy reliance on the IUD, little use of sterilization, and declining, but still significant use of withdrawal. The factors associated with the practice of withdrawal are explored. Evidence is found in support of Santow's hypotheses that the degree of sex-role differentiation within marriage and the belief that men hold the authority in reproductive decisionmaking are both positively related to the practice of withdrawal. Fear of oral contraceptives, a dislike of sterilization, and a reliance on the IUD only at greater parities imply a continuing role for withdrawal, especially among Israeli Jewish couples in which wives are less educated and have more traditional sex roles than the wives in other couples.

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PubMed2006

Explaining recent declines in adolescent pregnancy in the United States: the contribution of abstinence and improved contraceptive use.

OBJECTIVES: We explored the relative contributions of declining sexual activity and improved contraceptive use to the recent decline in adolescent pregnancy rates in the United States. METHODS: We used data from 1995 and 2002 for women 15 to 19 years of age to develop 2 indexes: the contraceptive risk index, summarizing the overall effectiveness of contraceptive use among sexually active adolescents (including nonuse), and the overall pregnancy risk index, calculated according to the contraceptive risk index score and the percentage of individuals reporting sexual activity. RESULTS: The contraceptive risk index declined 34% overall and 46% among adolescents aged 15 to 17 years. Improvements in contraceptive use included increases in the use of condoms, birth control pills, withdrawal, and multiple methods and a decline in nonuse. The overall pregnancy risk index declined 38%, with 86% of the decline attributable to improved contraceptive use. Among adolescents aged 15 to 17 years, 77% of the decline in pregnancy risk was attributable to improved contraceptive use. CONCLUSIONS: The decline in US adolescent pregnancy rates appears to be following the patterns observed in other developed countries, where improved contraceptive use has been the primary determinant of declining rates.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1997

[The use of the preparation Cilest in the practice of the Bulgarian Association for Family Planning].

Data are presented from a questionnaire study on the sexual activity of Bulgarian teenagers as well information on the contraceptive methods chosen by them. The authors inform in short about the activities of the Bulgarian Association for Family Planning (BAFP). Analyses are made of the data obtained from BAFP card-index for the last two years. Information is given on the number of observed cycles, types of applied contraceptive method, aims of their application (contraception, treatment of acne, menstrual disturbances etc.). The attention was concentrated on the third generation contraceptive pills Cilest, on the age of patients, as well as on the adverse effects--change in blood pressure, body-weight changes, intermenstrual bleeding, hairiness, breast problems, paraclinical changes, etc. Underlined is the number of teenagers who seen the BAFP help on problems of contemporary contraception. The observed cycles show a very small percentage of adverse effects with hormonal contraception, mainly during the first 2 of 3 cycles, with predominance of intermenstrual bleeding. No body-weight changes or increased hairiness were observed.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1984

Sexual and contraceptive experience among teenagers in Uppsala.

A questionnaire was offered to 181 sixteen-year-old boys (n = 88) and girls (n = 93) in different schools in the city of Uppsala. The questionnaire was introduced to the students by a nurse midwife during a regular lesson and included over 100 questions dealing partly with sexual education, attitudes towards sex and own experience of sex and contraception. Of the girls, 47% and of the boys, 31% answered that they had had intercourse. Twenty-eight per cent of the girls and 21.5% of the boys had had their first intercourse before the age of 15. Contraception was used at the first intercourse by 59% of the girls and by 70% of the boys. At the very first intercourse, the condom was the most commonly used contraceptive method. Increasing sexual experience changed the contraceptive pattern and at their last intercourse 48% of the girls were on the pill and 33% of the boys said that their girl friend was on the pill.

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